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Maybe this is my personal bias showing, but surely Google is more of a general technology company than Facebook could hope to be. Google has a long-term, susta
by neotek 13y ago
Maybe this is my personal bias showing, but surely Google is more of a general technology company than Facebook could hope to be.
Google has a long-term, sustainable business that continually makes huge strides in new markets - from revolutionising search, to speeding up the evolution of the internet through projects like Chrome, smashing up the smartphone market with Android, and so on. Facebook on the other hand is a pretty good social network that seems to have hit its peak and is difficult to monetise, where the only strides that are taken appear to be buying companies with overlapping userbases in order to cling on to relevance.
Okay, that's definitely my personal bias showing.
- jamesie 13y agoGoogle has been around for 6 years more than Facebook. Facebook will become more of a general technology company. Expect more acquisitions like this. It only makes sense to diversify.
- flylib 13y agoFacebook has a lot of talent and can easily compete with Google on new technology sectors
- lmm 13y agoThe only part of Google that's ever made money is their ads. Chrome and Android are purely defensive.